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List creator: ALittlefield Created on: April 8, 2006 - 6:01 PM PDT Description: Not all movies are made to have sequels, and yet more money is a great incentive! This results in the occasional sequel that breaks rules or plot lines layed out in previous films. Such as these examples...

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)			Not Rated
At the end of the original film, the monster is burned in a windmill and his creator recovers from his ordeal and marries his fiance. The sequel resurrects the monster and ignores the happy ending. Rereleases of the first film often cut the offending ending.
	Ghost of Frankenstein/Son of Frankenstein (1942)			Not Rated
In SON, the third Frankenstein film, the monster forgets how to speak after learning in THE BRIDE. Also, Bela Lugosi's evil Igor is killed at the end of SON, but somehow returns in GHOST.
	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man/House of Frankenstein (1942)			Not Rated
To shore up sagging box office, Universal started combining monsters in the same film; thus HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN featured Dracula, the wolfman and the monster, all of whom die at the end, but then somehow they all show up a year later in HOUSE OF DRACULA.
	King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Both of the title monsters died at the end of their first films. But death has certainly never stopped Godzilla!
	Dawn of the Dead (1978)			Not Rated
In NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, many of the zombies look like normal people, but now they're all a lovely, immistakable shade of green.
	Rocky III (1982)
In ROCKY II, our hero is afraid to return to the ring because a good blow to the head could blind him; this is conveniently forgotten for this and next two films.
	Rambo: First Blood Pt. 2 (1985)
At the end of the first film, Rambo is jailed after going on a violent killing spree; oddly,in the sequel the government still feels compelled to employ him on a top secret mission, which ends in him going on a violent killing spree. Then in the third film they let him do it again.
	Aliens (1986)
In the first film, much ado is made about how indestructable the title creature is, but in this followup a simple bullet to the head disposes of them.
	Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986)
Expecting any kind of respect for the audience's intellect in these films is clearly unwise, yet even they are pushing it when they start this movie off with two characters visiting Jason's grave after the last film clearly stated that he had been cremated!
	Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)			Not Rated
Not so much a sequel as a crazy, funny remake of the serious, scary first film. An odd turn of events, but I like the second one more.
	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Once again a horror movie slasher returns after being cremated in an earlier film. They even show a guy sifting through his ashes in the third one!
	Highlander 2: Renegade Version (1991)
Bringing back the definitely dead Sean Connery character for no good reason is just one of the mistakes this awful film makes.
	Terminator 2: Judgment Day - The Extreme Edition DVD (1991)
At the end of this film, the computer chip and the metal hand that allowed the computers to take over the world are destroyed, which means the computers never take over the world, which means that the second Terminator would never come back in time to destroy the computer chip and the arm that allow the computers to...my head hurts.
	Hannibal (Disc 1 of 2) (2001)
Hey! Where did Jodie Foster go? (I know, I know James Bond and Batman movies pull the same character switch all the time, but it really bugs me in a serious film like this).
	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Lucas did a lot digital papering to cover up continuity errors, but he still never explains how R2D2 can have so many cool powers in the prequels, but not in the other films.